570 ADDENDA. 



the ovary. Flowers pale yellow outside, deep yellow inside near the 

 apex, and the petals veined with violet. Sepals lanceolate, acute, 1 in» 

 long. Petals oblong, acute, 10 lin. long. Lip 10 lin. long; side lobes 

 semioblong or obtriangular, with the outer angle rounded ; front lobe 

 oblong, retuse, with the front margin minutely crisped ; disc wholly 

 covered with elevated denticulate veins, somewhat radiating towards 

 the margin, and nearly as high as the central keels which extend from 

 base to apex ; spur subulate, straight, 1 lin. long. Column acute, half 

 as long as the lip. 



llXozaiiil). Dlst. German East Africa : Usambara ; on the Handel Mountains 

 at Nderema, 2700 ft., Heinsen, 10. 



An anomalous species, only known to me from the original description, but said to 

 recall Limodorum or Galeola rather than Eulophia. 



10a. Mystacidium an^stum, Rolfe. Stem short or somewhat 

 climbing. Leaves lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate, unequally and 

 acutely bidentate, lf-3 in. long, 5-6 in. broad. Eaceme slender^ 

 2-3 in. long, 2-3-flowered. Bracts tubulose-spafhaceous, acute, 

 keeled, 1 lin. long. Pedicels slender, 9-11 lin. long. Flowers 

 white, slightly tinged with brown on the sepals and petals. Sepals 

 spreading, linear, attenuate, curved, 10—11 lin. long. Petals reflexed, 

 narrower than the sepals. Lip 6 lin. long, oblong and obtusely keeled 

 at the base, suddenly expanded at the middle into a cordate limb, 

 with a long acuminate reflexed apex ; spur 9-10 lin. long, narrowly 

 funnel-shaped and subcompressed at the base, slender in the middle, 

 and subclavate at the apex. Column very short ; stipes of the pollinia 

 and glands both distinct. 



Upper Guinea. Old Calabar ; Cross River, at Itu, Holland ! 



Remarkable for its long, narrow sepals and petals, and the cordate limb of the 

 lip. It is in cultivation at Kew, 



6 a. Br achy cory this Buchananii, Rolfe. Plant slender, erect, 

 glabrous. Stem straight or slightly flexuous, many-leaved, clothed with 

 loose sheaths at the base. Leaves ovate-lanceolate or ovate-elliptic, 

 setaceous-acuminate, the lower lJ-2 in. long, 5 lin. broad, decreasing 

 upwards into the bracts. Spikes cylindrical, rather dense, 1^-3 J in. 

 long, 7 lin. broad, many-flowered. Bracts lanceolate, very acute or 

 acuminate, the lower exceeding the flowers, the upper smaller. Sepals 

 ovate, subobtuse, 2 lin. long, 1 lin. broad ; lateral erecto-patent and 

 oblique at the base ; dorsal erect. Petals suberect, obliquely and 

 broadly ovate, subobtuse, about as long as the sepals and IJ lin. broad. 

 Lip with concave, broadly oblong base, 1 lin. long, and a dilated, three- 

 lobed limb of the same length, and IJ lin. broad; side lobes subfalcate- 

 oblong, obtuse ; front lobe smaller, triangular, acute ; disc with a 

 transverse triangular obtuse lamina at the base of the limb. Anther 

 oblong, obtuse. — Platanthera Bicchananii, Schlechter in Engl. Jahrb. 

 xxiv. 420. 



Bfozamb. Sist. British Central Africa : Nyasaland, Buchanan. 



Only known to me from the original description. 



